Improvement in pickers for looms



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

A. H. CARROLL, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN PICKERS FOR LOOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 88,845, dated April 13, 1869.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, A. H. CARROLL, of the city and county of Baltimore, and State of Maryland, have invented a new and Improved Picker; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference bein g had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of t-his specification, in which- Figure l is a vertical section through the line x of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a side view.

The object of this invention is to construct the picker in such a manner that it will keep the rod more constantly and uniformly lubricated than heretofore, and will not spatter the oil upon the cloth.

In the drawings, A is the picker, running upon the rod B. C is an oil-hole in the top of the picker, lextending down to the central opening, D. E is a strip of cloth, felt, or other suitable substance whichwill operate as a wick, to receive the oil at the hole or well C, and distribute it uniformly and continuously to the rod at its points of contact therewith, e c. In Fig. l this strip of fibrous material is represented by a greenish line interposed between the two outer layers of hide of which the picker any other convenient and suitable position for the performance of its peculiar function above described-as, for instance, in a bed or countersink in the outer or inner strip of hide, (shown at a, and a.)

The advantages of this improvement in the construction of pickers are the following, viz: first, economy in the use of oil, in that all the oil placed in the picker is utilized; secondly, security in the work, in that none of the oil is carried or thrown upon the cloth or llin g, as is often the case with the old pickers; thirdly, increased production, from the fact that the machinery will require less than one-sixth of the time for oilin g required by the pickers heretofore in use; fourthly, a large saving in power, from the fact that the rod is constantly and uniformly lubricated, and, iifthly, saving in picker-strin gs, picker, and tug-straps.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The picker herein described, composed of layers of rawhide and cloth, felt, or equivalent material, and having an oil-hole, C, sub stantially as set forth.

A. H. CARROLL.

WVitnesses DAVID CARROLL, HENRY SMITH. 

